A decision could come today in the strange case of the Narbonne High School girls’ basketball team’s pink uniforms and some well-meaning kids being punished for breaking a rule they never knew about. The officials hearing Narbonne&...

Twenty years after its National Football League teams left town, Los Angeles seems to have several opportunities to get a new one — or two. The St. Louis Rams, Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers all show interest in returning to the L...

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Finally, the nine-month West Coast labor dispute looks to be over and a tentative agreement is on the table. But even as the docks are humming with workers, the long-term implications could be grim. The slowdown, shutdowns and bitter negotiations over the past months between shippers and unionized dockworkers tarnished the reputation of the nation’s largest port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach. That’s going to be difficult to fix. Days after the mayors of Long...

Columns

More than 200 years ago, at the South Carolina convention that debated ratification of the U.S. Constitution, Charles Pinckney described the new country as “a republic, where the people at large, either collectively or by representation, form the legislature.” It is the continuing validity of that definition that is at stake in a case that will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 2. Arizona used “the people at large” to empower an...

By Bill Mundell and Charles T. Munger, Jr.
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Letters

Companies leave California because they can pay less Re “Farmer Brothers — another company driven out of California by high costs” (Commentary, Feb. 18): Jon Coupal has his facts lost in the taste of Farmer Brothers coffee. The union jobs to be lost at Farmer Brothers may pay $40,000 to $80,000 today;...

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Opinion

Editorials

In the span of 50 days, the plan to build a football stadium on the Hollywood Park land has gone from a secret to unanimous approval by the Inglewood City Council. That’s too fast for anyone, even the cheering residents and sports fans at Tuesday night’s council meeting, to be sure this proposal by St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke and San...

Columns

By Dan Walters California’s legislators are now eager to plug some gaping — and potentially dangerous — loopholes in criminal laws that voters opened last year by passing Proposition 47. But, one might wonder, where were these politicians last year when local prosecutors and cops were warning about Proposition 47’s loopholes? Where, for that matter, was Attorney General Kamala Harris, the state’s top law enforcement official, who wrote the...

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Columns

In the most contentious veto of his tenure, President Obama has rejected legislation that would have cleared the way for construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. For now, at least, completion of the 1,200-mile conduit bearing crude from Alberta’s oil sands remains on hold. What continues, however, is the debate raging around jobs the project was expected to create. Even before the bill reached his desk, Republicans were lining up to slam the president’s veto as a job...

By Mark Reynolds
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Letters

If DWP union has nothing to hide, then open books Re “Compromise on DWP trusts isn’t working” (Editorial, Feb. 15): The substance of this editorial is amazing. Imagine a public company’s pension program for its employees not allowing an audit of how it was spending some of the money in the program. That is exactly...

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Columns

I’ve had the pleasure of working as an electrical engineer at Raytheon Co. for more than 15 years, and I have a message for young women considering their education and career paths: Please don’t forget about math and science. I work for Raytheon’s Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) business in El Segundo, and I want more women to realize that STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) career fields aren’t limited to men. As a country, we are...

By Leticia Aparicio Diaz
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Columns

As a criminologist, nothing troubles me more than people playing politics with the facts about crime and safety. Blame games and misleading accusations often prevent a productive, meaningful discussion of what causes crime and how we can prevent it. But that is just what has happened in California in recent years as the state implements reforms to reduce its prison and jail populations. Is it possible to reduce incarceration and crime rates? The scientific answer is that we can and we...